When I was little, like 7 or 8 years ago when I was 4 or 5, I used to visit Nags Head, North Carolina each summer with my whole family. We would always rent a 2-story house that was within walking distance of the beach and it always had a jacuzzi (we didn't always rent the same house). I remember hearing in the news one summer that a girl around 14 or 15 had been in her jacuzzi and started to like go under and swim around. On the news it had said that she had gotten sucked under and had drowned.
Being the small child that I was, I thought that she had been sucked down the drain, never to be seen or heard from again. This scared me very much and I never swam around in a jacuzzi for like 5 years. I was scared out of my wits that I would get sucked down the drain. Thus, my fear of drowning for years after this.
Now, at 12 almost 13 years old, I know that this was not what had happened to her and that her hair had just gotten caught in the filter, which made her drown.
I feel so stupid. :)
A childhood belief about water
others believed things like this
- i thought that when you were in the bath you would get sucked down the drain— blake
- As a child I believed I could get sucked into the television. — Deb
- As a child I used think if I jumped too high on a trampoline I'd be sucked up into outer space.— Jenn
- I used to believe that if you didn't close the toilet lid after flushing, you would get sucked down into it.— Maya
- I used to belive that if you didn't step off the escalator in time you would be sucked into the mechanism.— Houdinia
- For years and years I believed that tuna must be really little fish because they came in such small cans!!— Gisela